I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.

The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.

There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary or other kinds of fiction do. The name of the game in F/SF/HF is creating fictional worlds and then telling particular stories set in those worlds. If you're doing it right, then the reader, coming to the end of the story, will say, "Hey, wait a minute, there are so many other stories that could be told in this universe!" And that's how we get the sprawling, coherent fictional universes that fandom is all about.

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.